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Stephanie Shipman on Developing an Effective Evaluation Agenda

Leave a Comment / Government Evaluation / August 24, 2011

My name is Stephanie Shipman and I am an Assistant Director with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). As the ‘congressional watchdog’, GAO’s mission is to support Congress in carrying out its legislative and oversight responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government. I work in the Center for Evaluation …

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Vanora Mitchell on Evaluating Online Learning

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies / August 23, 2011

My name is Vanora Mitchell and I am a professional independent evaluator working in Washington, DC. How do we evaluate online learning? About a year ago, a school that I volunteer with asked me to help them to evaluate their new online learning initiatives. They were in the process of developing online courses and wanted …

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Samantha Grant on Getting Program Staff Invested in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Extension Education Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Teaching of Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / December 21, 2011

Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As evaluators, incorporating evaluation into a program is as natural as breathing but for program-focused individuals, it is often the last, painful thought. In my work I have tried to show the …

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Yusuf Nazim on Evaluation Videos from the Evaluation Center

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 21, 2011

My name is Yusuf Nazim and I am learning about evaluation from aea365 and from people around the world. I wanted to share today a resource that I have found very valuable. Rad Resource – The Evaluation Center Videos on Vimeo: The site says “Lively discussions, engaging debates, and dynamic presentations about evaluation over the …

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Susan Kistler on Content Curation Part III: Seeking Reviewers and Curators

3 Comments / Uncategorized / August 21, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This is the last in a short aea365 series on content curation. Thursday: Content Curation for Evaluators Friday: Comparing Content Curation Tools Saturday: Participating in our Content Curation ProjectT Thursday focused on how evaluators (researchers, professionals, students, others) can use content …

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Susan Kistler on Content Curation Part II: Comparing Curation Tools Using the Same Content Items

4 Comments / Uncategorized / August 27, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. This week, I’m running a short series on content curation: Thursday: Content Curation for Evaluators Friday: Comparing Content Curation Tools Saturday: Participating in our Content Curation Project I’m in search of tools that may be leveraged by evaluators in their own …

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Susan Kistler on Content Curation Part I: Five ways to leverage content curation

4 Comments / Uncategorized / August 20, 2011

My name is Susan Kistler and I am AEA’s Executive Director. I normally post each Saturday, but this week, I wanted to create a short series to kick off a project: Thursday: Content Curation for Evaluators Friday: Comparing Content Curation Tools Saturday: Participating in our Content Curation Project Content Curation “describes the act of finding, …

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Rakesh Mohan and Lance McCleve on Why Evaluators Should Respond to the Interests of Sponsors and Stakeholders

2 Comments / Government Evaluation / August 17, 2011

Greetings from beautiful Boise, Idaho! We are Rakesh Mohan and Lance McCleve from the Idaho State Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations. This post discusses our office’s approach to addressing two seemingly conflicting expectations—responsiveness to and independence from sponsors and stakeholders. Instead of worrying about finding the right balance between the two, our mantra is to …

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Oksana Barley on the Evaluation Emergency Preparedness Toolkit

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / August 15, 2011

I am Oksana Barley. I am a home-based evaluation practitioner and I meet my clients in their chosen space. I always set out with what I think of as my Evaluation Emergency Preparedness Toolkit. Rad Resource – Toolkit: Here are the items in my Toolkit. Graph Paper Notepad: I find it easier to explain things …

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